(STEMWISE · SKETCH TO FEATURE)
From Sticky Note to SaaS Feature in 3 Weeks
Her sketch started the mother-plant feature, which tracks the big plants every cutting is taken from. Below is that sketch, the DMs it came in, and what shipped.
(TL;DR)
- SITUATION
- A wholesale grower already using Stemwise ran her mother plants, their variants, and their growing stages on paper, then sketched what she needed it to track.
- WHAT I DID
- I read her sketch and DMs, built her own stage names into the database, and shipped the feature.
- RESULT
- The feature shipped. She is moving her collection into it now.
(THE ASK, IN HER WORDS)
Three DMs, identity withheld. Her words, unedited.
I built a tracking setup for myself. This is what I was thinking of for the Family tree.
Can I beg of you to add corm to the stages?
I have 100 varieties of corms and about 60 varieties of TCs with some overlap.
Having a corm means I need to track where it came from so I can track if it is stable from a TC up the line. There are a lot of “reverts” around right now.
A wholesale customer · identity withheld
(THE TRANSLATION)
Her language, into the database.
Mother plants, growing stages including corm, which the database had no slot for, and lineage, so a plant that reverts still traces back to its parent. Three sentences of hers meant a real change to the database, not flipping a setting.
Her wordsWhat changed in the database
- “corm”
- A growing stage the database had no slot for.
- “reverts” · “track if it is stable from a TC up the line”
- Lineage, so a plant that reverts still traces back to its parent.
- “mother plants”
- The mother-plant record every cutting is taken from.
(SHIPPED)